PalenQ

has been launched by the French Government to help tourists plan visits to 18 different wine regions of France - highlighting such things as wine festivals, touring small vineyards, or to just learning about the nuances of various celebrated French wines.

www.visitfrenchwine.com.

Robert2533

It's fine, but they forgot about all those wanting to visit, sip a little wine, but don't speak French.

Pvoyageuse

Maybe those who don't speak French should click on "EN" (for English) on the top right of the page?????

Whathello

LOL !

The name of the site - not really in french, or is it - was already a giveaway.

PalenQ

I tried clicking on the EN and at first it just brought up French but if I clicked on it and stayed with the click it finally came up in English but here is the English version:

http://www.visitfrenchwine.com/en

bilboburgler

ttt

bilboburgler

Had a chance to read this site.

Good things; really pretty website, lots of great photos and beautifully laid out. Very useful if you are visiting France for the first time and want a quick overview for regions etc.

Bad things; lack of substance, eg if you want to look at the Loire I could not find the links through to Loire details or even the Loire wine website as developed for the American market. http://loirevalleywine.com/

so lack of joined up thinking.

Years ago the various French TI website were driven by the regions who met to distribute the money and how it was spent in Paris. Now Paris does its thing and the regions do their own thing, this leads to this sort of dead end.

I like the idea of the diary but it needs more links to the map so people can use it to plan, the German equiv is a bit better.